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Nicola di Bowery wrote 1 week ago: Ma si può scrivere un bel racconto in cui il protagonista sia una celebrità? Continuo a imbattermi i … more →

Tags: Almanacco Dentro il Cerchio, Short Story, Celebrity, obama, lsd, John Haskell, real person fiction, Adam Haslett, night walk

short story collections

Lola wrote 1 week ago: oh the weather outside is frightful!  if you’re a giant nerd (like me) then you’re proba … more →

Tags: who doesn't love a good list?, Reviews, i am literatre., Review, Books, Junot Diaz, David Foster Wallace, Octavia Butler, Steven Millhauser

The Fascinating Tales We Weave: The Political Fiction Projects

girlsflyingsolo wrote 1 week ago: Fictionalized President Obama in NY Mag's Political Fictions Project Wronged political wives cac … more →

Tags: ChickLit * Check Out The Short Stories, Poli Sci 101, Adrienne C Barr, Ask a Woman Who Knows, girlsflyingsolo, recessionista, Adrienne Barr, New York Magazine, Barack Obama

Advent Calendar 5: Gaitskill reads Nabokov

metafiction wrote 2 weeks ago: Symbols and Signs http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/06/09/080609on_audio_gaitskill … more →

Tags: Advent Calendar, Vladimir Nabokov

Political Fictions1 comment

Nicola di Bowery wrote 2 weeks ago: Mi era sfuggito completamente quando e’ uscito, ma grazie a Bookslut, ho trovato questo notevo … more →

Tags: Almanacco Autorevole [Authors], New York, nymag, Bookslut, letter, Eliot Spitzer

Book Readings: Do I get my book signed?

Amy Steele wrote 1 month ago: My friend Adam is a huge fan of Jonathan Safran Foer who is reading from Eating Animals tonight for … more →

Tags: Books, Tom Perrotta, Dick Lehr, Jonathan Lethem, Elinor Lipman, book signing

Why Women Don't Make Top Ten Lists: Prose on Prose2 comments

Millicent wrote 1 month ago: Dear CF, Laura Miller’s article on Publishers Weekly’s top ten list led me to Francine P … more →

Tags: Experiments, booooks, sex, firecrackers, writing, expectations of sex, Francine Prose, Leslie Marmon Silko

PEN American, Prison Writing Program

thefortunesociety wrote 1 month ago: PEN American Center will be hosting their second annual benefit reading and reception, featuring rea … more →

Tags: Upcoming Events General, Education, Pen American Center, PEN Prison Writing Program, prison writing contests, creative works by incarcerated individuals, Upcoming Events, Benefits, John Tuturro

Nabokov on YouTube & The New Yorker Festival

Nicola di Bowery wrote 2 months ago: “That’s Vladimir Nabokov on my computer screen, looking both dapper and disheveled. He’s weari … more →

Tags: Almanacco di città [About Town], Almanacco Autorevole [Authors], YouTube, Nabokov, new yorker festival, Lionel Trilling, Arthur Krystal, Edgar Allan Poe, Montaigne

The New Yorker Festival

gothampr wrote 3 months ago: The New Yorker Festival is a splash every year and this year looks to be no different. For the Octob … more →

Tags: gotham pr, NYC, The New Yorker, gothamite, new yorker festival, Junot Diaz, Jason Schwartzman, Stanley Tucci, Rachel Maddow

Four Blue Chip Contests

Ted wrote 3 months ago: Here are a few writing contests that definitely are worth the entry fee. Missouri Review, Jeffrey E. … more →

Tags: writing, Missouri Review, Contests, Summer Literary Seminars, Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Fictio, New Orleans Review, Zoetrope:All-Story, Yiyun Lee, Jill McCorkle

In Defense of Difficulty3 comments

sonyachung wrote 3 months ago: 13 September 2009 I should leave Lev Grossman’s recent article in the Wall Street Journal, … more →

Tags: Book Biz..., the writing life, media, film, Flannery O'Connor, Virginia Woolf, Dostoevsky, David Foster Wallace, James Joyce

mary gaitskill's lost cat

worldwidewhiskers wrote 3 months ago: This piece in Granta by Mary Gaitskill is about her lost cat, Gattino, but also so much more. It is … more →

Tags: bad things happen to good cats, Lost cat, Granta, gattino

Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill2 comments

razor wrote 3 months ago: I did not intend to take another night off from the keyboard, but this memoir is just too excellent … more →

Tags: writing, Lost cat, memoir, Granta

Reading Nolita3 comments

Nicola di Bowery wrote 4 months ago: I’m reading Victor LaValle’s Big Machine so it was quite maddening to see that his readi … more →

Tags: Almanacco di città [About Town], Alessandro Piperno, bookshop, jackson, McNally, nolita, victor lavalle

Too Sexy for my Dust Jacket

darlingaesthete wrote 4 months ago: Maud Newton takes another look at a long-debated issue: the hot young writer. She counts Oscar Wilde … more →

Tags: photos, Literature, writing, Poetry, identity, Oscar Wilde, Maud Newton, Poets & Writers

How we deal with loss: notes on Gaitskill's "Lost Cat"

theediblegirl wrote 5 months ago: The first story I read from my latest edition of Granta was Mary Gaitskill’s “Lost Cat. … more →

Tags: Writers, Life, Pets, Literature, Grief, Granta, Cats, magical thinking, being lost

Free Books!!!

thelibraryinsider wrote 5 months ago: Below is a listing of all the prepublications or ARC’s that I have currently available. If you … more →

Tags: Advanced Readers Copies, Books, Shawn Klomparens, Nancy Grace, naseem rakha, Michael Connelly, Nafisa Haji, John Burnside, christopher nicholson

running up that hill, with no problems

popcornsnaps wrote 5 months ago: got ready this morning to luomo and al green – possibly the most energizing morning blend ever … more →

Tags: Home, Portraits, Music, Self Portrait, brian eno, luomo, Al Green, Morning, Cluster


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